⋆ ° ⟡ ( HUNTER SCHAFER, twenty-two, trans woman, she/her ) i saw JUSTICE O’NEIL at the winter palace. did you know that the FIGURE SKATER is originally from AUSTRALIA? i heard they can be quite ARGUMENTATIVE, but also OUTGOING. there’s rumours they’re at the winter palace because SHE’S TRAINING AS AN OLYMPIC HOPEFUL, but you never know. BRUISING LIKE OVERRIPE FRUIT, THE SHARP INHALE BEFORE A LAUGH, AND NAILS CHIPPED AROUND THE EDGES always remind me of them.
tldr: justice is the precise combination of tonya harding, dan humphrey, and elle woods
her most iconic routine
justice o’neil is born third of five, smack in the middle of a small army of children with too much energy for their over-worked parents.
dad’s canadian, mom’s australian; justice was born in toronto while her dad was playing for the maple leafs and moved to sydney
oh, yes. this is a hockey family
everyone plays it except mom – justice, her brothers, her sisters. hockey is an all gender sport in the o’neil family , you too can slam your sister into the plexiglass if she’s mouthing off
it’s very cute okay, it never gets cold enough to freeze the lake behind their house but damn do they descend on the local ice rink like a blonde plague
justice transitions at eleven and picks up figure skating at twelve
it’s late – for someone with ambitions like hers and her father’s, but damn if justice hammered discipline directly into her spine
it’s ... different than skating for hockey, and the fighting is subtle and worse. she presses through anyways
haha ! on the junior national team by fourteen
it feels like success for about two days before the media circus descends and justice gets her first taste of being the face of controversy in australian skating
she is, eventually, allowed to skate for the women’s junior team. she writes horrible things to the people who petitioned otherwise in the corner of her notebooks
she’s good – great, actually – but it’s always her mouth that’s getting her in trouble. she cycles through coaches who throw their hands up in defeat and moves on to the next with more determination
at 18 she makes it onto the olympic team, and it finally feels like everything is falling into place.
what, like it’s hard?
she places 8th, but barely makes it back on the plane home before the scandal breaks
justice has been implicated in bribing judges at the olympic qualifiers that allowed her on the team in the first place
it wasn’t her. it wasn’t – it was her coach, but everyone’s so quick to point figures. the organizations don’t know what to do except put her on probation
justice isn’t quiet about it, so they ship her off to genovia where she can be as loud as she wants and no one of importance will hear her
she’s supposed to be proving her innocence and squeaky clean record, but it’s difficult when no one is listening and the town is crawling with royals
yes ... enter the dan humphrey interlude
justice is bored, and the royals are here, so why not make the most of it? for whatever reason, she’s determined to get an in the the rich and powerful, no matter the cost
